Well, I can't believe I almost didn't to the Easy Rider tour - it was fantastic. Definitely one of the highlights of my trip. On the first day we set off at 9 and made our way to various farms growing roses, mushrooms, coffee and tea. We then stopped in a little village where we were invited into the house of a family who served us green tea and...

Travelling alone can be lonely. I am stating the obvious. Well it is good to have someone to talk to. I am lucky to meet with 5 people today, Carrey and Karen from Australia and 3 medical students from Canada (Zee, Leanne and Alex). I told them that I signed up for the mountain biking. They were telling me about their mountain biking experience ...

Why hellooo... We really hope you enjoy this blog as this was the absolute highlight of our trip so far! We had so much fun, and were very sad when it was over... From Ho Chi Minh City we took one of many long bus journeys up to Dalat, a beautiful town in the central highlands of Vietnam. It was really chilled out and the people were sooo friend...

Ok you will not read that in my blog too often about a place but Dalat sucks! Me and Kirsten had great expectations about it, god we were disappointed. It sounded like a nice mountain town, supposed to be romantic and peaceful. Better laugh about it then cry I guess. When we first got there we had to go to about 25 different hotels before we cou...

OK, so after about twenty minutes of typing here, the power went out and I lost it all (I know, I shoud have been saving periodically). I'm not much in the mood to write it all again, so here's the short version: Dalat is up in the mountains (about 5000 feet) and quite different from everywhere else I've been. All the winding, hilly streets and ...

On the road again, this time with our nasty open tour ticket in hand! Basically an open tour ticket allows you to hop on and off the bus as often as you want in different towns until you reach you destination, for us that is Hue. I say nasty because although it is cheap it does make you feel like a cow being herded around the country side. The b...

Day 35: Morning bus to Dalat - long and tiring bus trip up the mountians, afternoon stroll, lost Jon and Rhian... Evening sick/fever, bed early, didn't sleep very well... poor little me Day 36: Still not feeling well... spent the morning in bed. Jumped on the free internet at the hotel and found a photo of me in Laos on the desktop which I didn'...

So we rocked up to Dalat, a town in the mountains with a much cooler climate and it was an exciting prospect to be wearing a sweater again. We spent a day canyoning (rappelling, hiking, swimming and generally navigating your way through an Eagle River-like river), and when we left the town, we rode mountain bikes 80 km to the ocean and a town ca...

Dalat is a lakeside town in the central highlands of Vietnam, a place non-existent until the French established a settlement here to escape the heat of the Mekong Delta late in the late nineteenth century. I was looking forward to escaping the heat of South East Asia too - it's been almost six months of humid, 32 degree celsius weather for me - ...

Day 21 Saturday 20/11/04 Ho Chi Minh City - Dalat HCMC hasn't really impressed us and there isn't a lot to do for the size of the city so we're off to Dalat. Dalat is located in the highlands of Vietnam and should be 10 degrees cooler - so a welcome change to the searing heat. The day started badly - we think they forgot to book us on a bus so w...